On October 6 1995, at a scientific meeting in Florence, Italy, two Swiss astronomers made an announcement that would transform our understanding of the universe beyond our solar system. Michel Mayor ...

Badlands trailer has hit ahead of the movie's release, showing off the dangerous planet of Kalisk in all its glory.

The Copernican Principle, named in honor of Nicolaus Copernicus (who proposed the heliocentric model of the Universe), states ...

The Copernican Principle, named in honor of Nicolaus Copernicus (who proposed the heliocentric model of the universe), states ...

When astronomers pointed the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) at a faint object orbiting a distant star system, they weren’t ...

There are a couple of ways that scientists can date planets, so which planets formed first in our solar system?

A new study suggests yet another theory for a possible extra planet in our solar system, likely of a size between Mercury and ...

Some habitable worlds orbiting dead stars could be kept alive for aeons thanks to a quirk of Einstein’s theory of gravity ...

For all the talk about life across the cosmos, Earth remains the only confirmed example. That single data point makes your ...

A new study from David Kipping attempts to explain why we are located around a yellow star, and so early in the universe.

According to the equations that govern black holes, the larger one of these cosmic behemoths is the lower its average density ...